26th April 2024
Elsbeth rose early, unable to sleep longer for her excitement. She broke her fast on yesterday’s bread and cheese.
“How about drawing us fresh water from the well before you leave?” her mother called her back when Elsbeth would have been out of the door and gone.
“But they’ll go without me if I’m not there in time.”
It was a party of ten, including three monks, to make the pilgrimage to Walsingham via the shrine of St Edmund, and the wells of St Walstan at Bawburgh, and St Withburga at East Dereham.
93 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Pilgrimage
St Edmund was an East Anglian king, killed defending our land against the earliest Viking incursions.
St Walstan reputedly renounced his royal connections to become a farm labourer at Taverham near Norwich; it was said King Cnut sought him to kill him for he posed a threat to his throne.
St Withburga was the daughter of King Anna, an early king of East Anglia.
These two photos feature St Withburga’s well at Saint Nicholas church, East Dereham.
26th April 2024
crispina kemp 
So well written my friend
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Subjects close to my heart, being a bit of a history nerd of this particular historical period
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Cool.
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Hopefully, she made it in time! A nice story with a very interesting footnote.
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Thank you. Always good to be able to share knowledge gained over the years 🙂
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You have such fascinating tidbits! Love this, Crispina.
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Thank you, Dale. I lived in next village to St Walstan’s Well, and King Anna… well, with a name like that, of course it sticks
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Of course 🙂
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